Here is the list of the topics we will cover in class.  Each week we begin discussion of new topics with a 45 minute introductory lecture by the Prof.  Remaining class time in the week will be taken up with in-depth student presentations on the week's topic.  
(Some readings available only to ACM Digital library subscribers).

Weekly Topics:

Matching Reading

Tu/Th Jan 7/9 -- Introduction & Overview:

Jan 7: Tumblin:   Intro, Administrivia; 
               SIGGRAPH Videos: amazing recent advances...
Jan 9: Tumblin: All I know about advanced graphics in 90 minutes! 
              (talkTum) &(talkWats)  
 

E-mail your presentation  topic preferences
(1st, 2nd, 3rd) to jet@cs.northwestern.edu by Monday, Jan 13 

Tu/Th Jan 14/16  -- Shape representation:

Volumes, implicit surfaces, parametric surfaces, subdivision surfaces, point based models,...

Jan 14: Overview (talk; demos 1, 2; images)  
Jan 14: Jared Brown: "Image-Based Modeling & Photo-Editing" Byong Mok Oh, Max Chen, Julie Dorsey, Fredo Durand SIGGRAPH2001.

Jan 16:Dan Cogswell presents:
Jan 16: Steve Gordon presents:
 

Good starting points: 

Watt: Chs. 2.2-2.4; 3.1-3.5; 4; 13.1-13.3

"Adaptively sampled distance fields: a general representation of shape for computer graphics" Frisken et al., SIGGRAPH 00.

"Surface splatting" Zwicker et al., SIGGRAPH 01.  (project page)
 

Tu/Th Jan 21/23 -- 2D Image space techniques:

Anti-alias, composite, image morph, mosaics, panoramas...

Jan 21: Overview (talk; paper)  
Jan 21:
Jan 23:
Jan 23:

Good starting points: 

Watt: Ch. 14

"Polynomial texture maps" Tom Malzbender et al., SIGGRAPH 01.

"Environment matting and compositing" Douglas Zongker et al.,  SIGGRAPH 99.
 

Tue/Thu Jan 28/30 - Surface mappings:

Procedural textures & elaboration, bump/displacement maps, ...

Jan 28: Overview (talk; pictures)  
Jan 28:
Jan 30: 
Jan 30: 

Good starting points: 
 

Watt: Ch. 8

"Texture synthesis on surfaces" Greg Turk, SIGGRAPH 01.

"Lapped textures" Praun et al.,  SIGGRAPH 00.
 

Tue/Thu Feb 4/6 - Real Global illumination & Convincing Fakesl
Overview (talk)

BRDFs, radiosity, photon mapping, subsurface scattering...

Due dates:
Feb 4 - project proposal, or
Feb 4 - reference list for survey paper 

Feb 4: Overview (talk)
Feb 4: 
Feb 6: 
Feb 6: 

Good starting points:

 UNC Online Introduction, 

"Fast Calculation of Soft-Shadow Textures Using Convolution" Cyril Soler, Francois Sillion, pg 321, SIGGRAPH1998

"Reflection-space Image-Based Rendering" pg 165 SIGGRAPH1999, (Clearcoat)

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~olano/papers/cc360/cc360.pdf 

"Instant Radiosity" Alexander Keller, pg.49 SIGGRAPH1997

http://portal.acm.org/citation...

http://www.uni-kl.de/AG-Heinrich/Alex.html

"Global Illumination using Photon Maps". In "Rendering Techniques '96". Eds. X. Pueyo and P. Schröder. Springer-Verlag, pp. 21-30, 1996 http://graphics.lcs.mit.edu/~henrik/papers/ewr7/ 

Desktop RADIANCE homepage (Win32 RADIANCE+GUI) http://radsite.lbl.gov/deskrad/ 

Watt: Chs. 7; 10

"Reflection-space image-based rendering" Cabral et al., SIGGRAPH 99.

"Instant radiosity" Alexander Keller, SIGGRAPH 97.  (home page)
 

Tue/Thu Feb 11/13 - Shape manipulation:

Simplification, morphing, comparison & summary, fitting...

Feb 11: Overview (talk, 1, 2, 3)  
Feb 11:
Feb 13:
Feb 13:

 Good starting points:

Watt: Ch. 2.5

"Shape transformation using variational implicit functions" Turk et al., SIGGRAPH 99.

"Topology matching for fully automatic similarity estimation of 3D shapes" Hilaga et al., SIGGRAPH 01.
 

Tue/Thu Feb 18/20 - Light fields and Approximations:

Visibility culling, shadow maps, lumigraphs...

Due date:
Feb 18: survey paper for grads

Feb 18: Overview (talk)  
Feb 18: 
Feb 21: 
Feb 21:

Good starting points: 

"The Lumigraph" Steven Gortler et al. http://research.microsoft.com/MSRSIGGRAPH/96/Lumigraph.htm, SIGGRAPH`96, pg.??

"Light Field Rendering" Marc Levoy et al. SIGGRAPH96
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/light/  and an application: http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/lightfield-of-night/ 

Adaptive Shadow Maps: Randima Fernando,... pg 387, SIGGRAPH 2001 http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/pubs/2001/FFBG01.pdf 

Luebke's Visibility Culling Lecture: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs551dl/lecture17/  

"Tracing Ray Differentials" Homan Igehy, SIGGRAPH 1999

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/trd/

Watt: Chs. 9; 16.5

"The lumigraph" Steven Gortler et al., SIGGRAPH 96.

"Deep shadow maps" Tom Lokovic and Eric Veach, 
SIGGRAPH 00.
 

Tue/Thu Feb 25/27 - "Non-Photorealistic Rendering" (NPR):

Ink, pencil, watercolor, oil, artistic style, video...

Feb 25: Overview (talk, pictures, example)  
Feb 25: 
Feb 27:
Feb 27: 

Good starting points: 

Mario Souza's NPR http://www.cs.utah.edu/npr/papers.html

"Escherization" Craig Kaplan et al., SIGGRAPH 00.

"Digital facial engraving" Victor Ostromoukhov, SIGGRAPH 99.

more...
 

Tue/Thu Mar 4/6 - Model acquisition & IBMR

light field capture, 3D scans, Image based modeling & rendering,

Mar 4:Overview (talk)
Mar 4:
Mar 6: 
Mar 6: 

Good starting points: 

"The Digital Michelangelo Project: 3D Scanning of Large Statues", Marc Levoy et. al., pg 131, SIGGRAPH2000:

"Image-Based Visual Hulls" Steven Gortler et al. pg SIGGRAPH2001,

SIGGRAPH2000 3D photography course:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~seitz/course/Sigg00/slides/seitz-voxel.pdf 

"View Morphing", Steve Seitz, Chuck Dyer, SIGGRAPH 96 

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/seitz/vmorph/vmorph.htm 

"Layered Depth Images", Jonathan Shade, Steven Gortler, Li-Wei He, Richard Szeliski. SIGGRAPH 1998, 231-242, July 1998. http://research.microsoft.com/users/lhe/pastproj.htm 

and the follow-on:

" LDI Trees: A Hierarchical Rep. for Image Based Rendering" Chun-fa Chang, pg 291 SIGGRAPH1999

Watt: Ch. 16

"The Digital Michelangelo Project: 3D Scanning of Large Statues" Marc  Levoy et al., SIGGRAPH 00.  (project page)

"Image-Based Visual Hulls" Matusik et al., SIGGRAPH 00.  (project page, presentation)
 

Tue/Thu Mar 11/13 - Demos, Odds & Ends:

Project demos, makeup presentations,  etc.
Survey papers due Thursday Mar 13